I just wanted to give you a quick update of how much snow you can expect. Here’s a look at the Winter Storm Watch and Futurecast from Tuesday afternoon: (The Winter Storm Watch was upgraded to a warning on New Year’s Day. Also, Clearfield, Jefferson, Indiana, and Clarion counties are under a Snow and [...]
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This morning, Katie and I were chomping on chocolate chip cookies during the breaks. At the end of the show, she promised that the recipe would appear here, on the Severe Weather Team Blog… As I told Katie, I thought the recipe was just the basic Tollhouse recipe. I was right! So, here it [...] Meteorologist Tony Martin took time away from the new little one to talk about the weather for the last couple of days of 2007. Here’s the video…
2007 had it’s share of ups and downs. The video below is a look at some of the highlights of the weather of 2007. Remember, you can see our New Year’s Eve special on New Year’s Eve on Channel 6.
Here’s the latest on Santa as of 8:38 PM. He’s been spotted in Guyana, South America with the latest video being filed from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here’s some video from NORAD. To navigate the videos, you may have to click the right arrow below. There are 17 videos right now, but there’ll be [...] LATEST SANTA SPOTTING: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONHere’s a picture from the video feed we got from NORAD… The International Space Station and Santa’s sleigh are side by side here. It’s just one more pit stop in his journey around the globe. Keep up to date on Santa’s location by checking out the Norad Tracks Santa [...] LATEST SANTA SPOTTING: TAJ MAHAL IN INDIAHere’s a picture from the video feed we got from NORAD… Santa and his 9 reindeer have been spotted in India near the Taj Mahal. Hopefully we get another update before I’m done at 12:30 this afternoon. If not, you can always keep up to date on Santa’s [...] LATEST SANTA SPOTTING: HIMALAYAS IN NEPALHere’s a picture from the video feed we got from NORAD… You can see Rudolph leading the sleigh through the mountains. Hopefully we get another update before I’m done at 12:30 this afternoon. If not, you can always keep up to date on Santa’s location by checking out the [...] We’re tracking Santa all day long today on Channel 6. Make sure you follow along by visiting the NORAD Santa Website here. Have a Merry Christmas! Sorry for the lack of updates recently, it’s been a really busy time in the Severe Weather Center. We’ve been in contact with NORAD, the group that tracks Santa every year to see if we could be involved. Lucky for us, they said that we could. On Christmas Eve starting on Channel 6 News [...] A Few Things in the Long Range This week overall looks to play out rather tranquil, with a weak system for Wednesday bringing a few light snow showers and another system could brush the region on Friday. First we’ll talk about the Wednesday system. A weak cold front and associated low pressure system will [...] Meteorologist Tony Martin discusses the weather patterns heading into the Christmas holiday! Here’s his video from Weather Plus…
Just a quick update from home… I’m back in the Pittsburgh area now and the snow started falling around 1:00 PM. Since then (in just 2 hours), we’ve picked up anywhere from an inch to two inches of snow. It was really coming down hard there for a little while. It’s calmed down now, [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (and I’m not talking about snow on the ground, either). Take a look at the latest watches and warnings map from the National Weather Service in State College. Pinks, greens, and light browns are all over the place. As of 3:44 PM on Thursday, [...]
I’m sitting in traffic on my way back to Pittsburgh and I have my sun roof open. I looked at the temperature and my car tells me it’s 61 degrees. I wanted to know just how warm Johnstown was so I called Tony. He told me that the airport is at [...] Winter Weather Fighting “Spring” Those of us who had some decent amounts of snow on the ground last week saw most of it melt away over the weekend and early this week thanks to rain and temperatures rising into the 40s. And speaking of warm temperatures, some areas will climb into the 50s on [...] There are different types of winter precipitation ranging from snow to sleet to freezing rain to rain. Here’s an explaination of how this precip types occur.
Just a quick update on what we’re starting to do now… updates on the road conditions from PennDOT’s RWIS (or Road Weather Information System). RWIS gives us the ability to color-code roadways across the Alleghenies. Here’s what it looks like…
You can get a look at the Road Weather Information System [...] Low Temperatures on Thursday morning were the coldest we’ve seen in 10 months. Some spots in Pennsylvania were below zero! Here’s a look at the broken records for the morning of the 6th across West Central PA:Johnstown Take a look at this post to get a quick how-to on measuring snow… |
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